Miata Mailing List: January 1999, Message #229

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On Sat, 2 Jan 1999 15:19:29 -0500, you wrote:

>If I understand them correctly, the responses people have sent me
>privately suggest that there are at least three different types of 1.6
>JR CAI elbow out there:
>
>(1) Mine (which happens to be polished) has about a 3" outer diameter
>inlet and about a 2.5" outlet.  The inlet side is flared (it has a
>steeply stepped-up diameter that looks almost like it's meant to receive
>another pipe inside it, except the elbow's interior flares smoothly,
>without a step).
>
>(2) Larry Alster has two 1.6 kits, one older and one newer, both of
>which have similarly-flared inlets, each about 2 11/16" in outer
>diameter; they are about 1/8" smaller on the outlet side.
>
>(3) Bill Gusky has a 1.6 kit which has a outlet (about the same size as
>the throttle body inlet, or maybe 2.6") that is actually larger than the
>inlet.
>
>Any others want to contribute to this survey?  Can anyone explain the
>variations?  (Again, the issue arose only because I was having trouble
>fitting a flex hose to the elbow on my kit--through Ian Dacany's
>kindness I now have some replacement flex ducting that works.)

Without actually measuring mine, it appears the same as Bill Guskys. I
had no trouble with the assembly of my hose.

Mark

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